Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches

I teased you on Thursday with a slightly off-the-wall image... it involved some camo-adjacent looking yarn. 

It's Hobbii Silly Socks, 75% superwash Merino, 25% polyamide, and it worked up dreamily. As you can tell from the swatch shots, I worked it quite tightly on a size 4mm ... Tunisian hook. Yup, not knitted, as you might think from that 'right side' - only the reverse side indicates something different. This is, though, called the knit stitch in Tunisian style crochet - for obvious reasons!

I bought the yarn in a large order from Hobbii a few years ago. It's been waiting. When my siblings were here and saw the jumper I made Mac1, I offered if they wanted anything. Mac2 sorted through the various mini-scarves and opted for the long turquoise one with the curly ends. Mac3 spotted this yarn peeking out of one of my many bags of stash, and I could see he was taken with it. He likes to wear neck gaiters (or buffs, as he calls them), so I set to it. It will get posted to him for his birthday at the end of the month. 

Being sock yarn, it's a fingering-weight skein with wonderful loft. It's also very warm. Working with a quality yarn like this is pleasing beyond words. Above you see the finished item in its full 'buff' mode. On Thursday, I showed how it could be brought up balaclava-style for the more wintry weather. It can be rolled so that it is not quite so bulky around the neck, displaying the reverse side, which I think is as attractive a stitch pattern as the standard knit look.

In that same folded formation, it makes a decent headband, too... and then, of course, I couldn't resist checking out its "toque potential"!

I quite like that French Revolutionary dangle! I will be working something like this again for myself because I found myself wanting to keep wearing it. I don't have that same yarn (although I could order it... but no... stash overload!)

Anyway, there's another use for sock yarn you don't want to make socks with!

Menoturals; Flower Friday

Sending flowers to the galdogs at LLB gang, and joining in their Nature Friday postings! Let's go with the yellow tones this week...

Menodiddly; This And That

Slightly limbo this past week. The Grey went in for his service last week, which went well, although there are some repairs that require attending, which requires parts to be ordered. I am preparing this post on Tuesday and still no word. Slightly concerning, because until the repairs are done, his first official MOT (roadworthiness) can't be performed, and the deadline for that is tomorrow! I am hoping that as you read this, things have moved or are about to.

Anyway, whilst waiting for all that, I've been doing my usual, listening, watching, reading, yarning... got a bit more done on WIPs as per my post on Saturday Stitches, but also, being me, working new projects, too. Like this...

Say what?! Read all about that one on the upcoming stitches post.

I received the following update from the Lake District... oor wee pal has been undergoing some spring shenanigans, it seems!

I hope the wee lad didn't have too much of a hangover from that! 

While on the subject of dogs, I had some disappointing news about my current guide dog sponsor pup.

There was a bit more spiel than that, but that's the essential stuff. As compensation for the ongoing sponsorship, I have had a substitute puppy assigned, who is at a similar level as Buttons, in that she is due to go to full training. Once the pups are at training, there is usually only one, at most two, further pupdates, before then being signed off and then a new puppy comes my way again. I believe there is to be a full pupdate for Clover, coming up in June, so will share a bit more about her then. Meanwhile, isn't she pretty?